March 6, 2006

Aperture Tricks #41 – Better Performance Library

Watch out for Librarys store on an encrypted Filevault! I use filevault to secure my home directory on my powerbook and i was getting truly miserable performance on many functions in Aperture. I store my raw images in an unencrypted folder on my machine but, since Aperture wants to store itself by default in ~/Pictures/ApertureLibrary.aplibrary, there was a lot of data being read and written that was passing through the encryption gateway. I moved my library outside of my home directory and performance improved by at least 40%.